Buried By Baptism, 2018 Asbury Theological Seminary
The Christian's Secret Of A Happy Life, 2018 Asbury Theological Seminary
The Christian's Secret Of A Happy Life, Hannah Whitall Smith
Heritage Material
No abstract provided.
The Unselfishness Of God And How I Discovered It, 2018 Asbury Theological Seminary
The Unselfishness Of God And How I Discovered It, Hannah Whitall Smith
Heritage Material
No abstract provided.
Review: Liturgy And Personality, By Dietrich Von Hildebrand, 2017 The University of Notre Dame Australia
Review: Liturgy And Personality, By Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Thomas V. Gourlay 402884
Thomas V. Gourlay
No abstract provided.
Christmas I Series B 2017, 2017 Concordia University - Portland
Christmas I Series B 2017, Phillip L. Brandt
Sunday's Sermon
This PDF comments on the Propers for the First Sunday of Christmas, Series B and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.
Advent 4 Series B 2017, 2017 Concordia University - Portland
Advent 4 Series B 2017, Phillip L. Brandt
Sunday's Sermon
This PDF comments on the Propers for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Series B and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.
Seeing Witchcraft, 2017 Society of the Missionaries of Africa
Seeing Witchcraft, Bernhard Udelhoven
Journal of Global Catholicism
When Christians in Zambia struggle with witchcraft, they also struggle with African cultural and religious concepts that deal with life’s ambiguities and that require discernment. It is not by working against the cultural and religious heritage, but by working with it, as far as possible, that the pastor can identify the broken relationships towards which many witchcraft discourses point. However, before we place the concepts of witchcraft into the realm of superstition (as are the trends of mission Christianity) or the demonic (as are the trends of charismatic Christianity), the Church has the duty to look at the concepts, stay …
Allocutio: Articulating The Task For The Future Of African Catholicism, 2017 Godfrey Okoye University
Allocutio: Articulating The Task For The Future Of African Catholicism, Mary Sylvia Nwachukwu
Journal of Global Catholicism
This essay charts how Catholicism can become more indigenously African and respond better to African needs and concerns.
The Devil Of The Missionary Church: The White Fathers And Catholic Evangelization In Zambia, 2017 Society of the Missionaries of Africa
The Devil Of The Missionary Church: The White Fathers And Catholic Evangelization In Zambia, Bernhard Udelhoven
Journal of Global Catholicism
This article examines how Western Catholic missionaries in Zambia dealt with claims of witchcraft and Satanism. Within an analytic frame that draws upon cultural history, theology, and anthropology the article also considers how African Christians appropriated missionary notions of the devil.
Learning Religion In The Presence Of The Other: Mission And Dialogue In World Catholicism, 2017 University of Innsbruck
Learning Religion In The Presence Of The Other: Mission And Dialogue In World Catholicism, Matthias Scharer
Journal of Global Catholicism
Based on selected texts of the Second Vatican Council and related to the process of the Council and Church experiences thereafter, this article offers a brief insight into the theological method known as communicative theology (CT). One of the factors most challenging to mission and dialogue in world Catholicism is the perpetual presence of the “other” as a stranger. This learning religion in the presence of the “other” is not the exception; this article argues that it is, in fact, very typical of mission and dialogue in Africa as well as in Europe
The Ecclesiology Of Pope Francis And The Future Of The Church In Africa, 2017 Fordham University
The Ecclesiology Of Pope Francis And The Future Of The Church In Africa, Bradford E. Hinze
Journal of Global Catholicism
A consideration of the future of African Catholicism in light of the ecclesiology of Pope Francis. The article explores how themes in Francis's ecclesiology work together to challenge centralization, clericalism, and triumphalism in the church by promoting practices of synodality and how these elements support the church’s mission to work against forms of colonialism, neo-colonialism, and the most fundamental matrix of colonial power by advancing radical democracy in society
Advent 3 Series B 2017, 2017 Concordia University - Portland
Advent 3 Series B 2017, Phillip L. Brandt
Sunday's Sermon
This PDF comments on the Propers for the Third Sunday of Advent, Series B and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.
An Examination Of The Teaching Of Missional Concepts Of Christian Discipleship And Their Potential For Creating An Attitudinal Change At Berea Lutheran Church, Richfield, Minnesota, 2017 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
An Examination Of The Teaching Of Missional Concepts Of Christian Discipleship And Their Potential For Creating An Attitudinal Change At Berea Lutheran Church, Richfield, Minnesota, Kevin Tiaden
Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project
Tiaden, Kevin N. “An Examination of the Teachings of Missional Concepts of Christian Discipleship and their Potential for Creating Attitudinal Change at Berea Lutheran Church, Richfield, Minnesota.” Doctor of Ministry. Major Applied Project, Concordia Seminary, 2017. 132 pp.
The purpose of this study is to examine the teaching of missional principles of discipleship at Berea Lutheran Church. I examine the attitudinal changes that take place as a result of this class. The first step in this process is looking at what those missional and Biblical principles are and then creating a method of teaching them in a large group setting …
Advent 2 Series B 2017, 2017 Concordia University - Portland
Advent 2 Series B 2017, Phillip L. Brandt
Sunday's Sermon
This PDF comments on the Propers for the Second Sunday of Advent, Series B and offers ideas for proclamation and preaching.
Fostering Healing Through Narrative Transformation, 2017 Abilene Christian University
Fostering Healing Through Narrative Transformation, Randall Carr
Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry
The methodology developed for recent research originated from the idea that God is constantly transforming and adapting a congregation’s narrative. With this in mind, it becomes imperative for church leaders to discern how God continues to alter the congregation’s narrative in order to effectively reach out to an immediate context. To assist church leaders to identify God’s transformative work, I developed a procedure designed to move from a congregation’s existing narrative to envisage a future narrative. This process blends Appreciative Inquiry, Ethnographic Inquiry, and Paul Ricoeur’s three moves toward mimesis, culminating in the discovery of God’s transformed future narrative.
Discovering …
Practicing Missional Hospitality In A Suburban Church, 2017 Abilene Christian University
Practicing Missional Hospitality In A Suburban Church, Kevin Stewart
Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry
The West Houston Church of Christ is typical of many churches in North America that struggle to relate in meaningful ways to the surrounding culture. Over thirty years West Houston changed from a small, vibrant young church with a thriving family-like atmosphere to a large church in a new building, yet mourning its loss of family connections. It was struggling to find a new identity. In this article I discuss the ingrained sense of family that has served as the identity of West Houston and explore both theological and practical ways—specifically those involving missional hospitality—through which a church can navigate …
Shared Leadership In Congregations: How To Construct A Holding Environment To Do Adaptive Work, 2017 Abilene Christian University
Shared Leadership In Congregations: How To Construct A Holding Environment To Do Adaptive Work, Zach Ellis
Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry
Many congregations struggle to adapt to changes in their environment. Congregational and pastoral leadership is an important factor in a congregation’s success or failure. The emerging practice of Shared Leadership offers congregational leaders one tool that might help them successfully engage in the adaptive work necessary in the face of a changing environment. Recent research has connected the practice of Shared Leadership to increased innovation in businesses. This form of leadership should be explored as a model for congregations as they engage in adaptive change. However, because it is adaptive change that is required, and not only technical change, a …
Concordia Seminary Magazine Fall 2017, 2017 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Concordia Seminary Magazine Fall 2017, Dale Meyer
Concordia Seminary Magazine
500th Anniversary
Christianity And Sport Psychology: One Aspect Of Cultural Competence, 2017 Johnson University-Tennessee
Christianity And Sport Psychology: One Aspect Of Cultural Competence, Trevor J. Egli, Leslee A. Fisher
Movement and Being: The Journal of the Christian Society for Kinesiology, Leisure and Sports Studies
There is currently a dearth of literature relating to how applied sport psychology practitioners might work with a Christian sportsperson (Czech et al., 2004, Egli et al., 2014). Therefore, the purpose of this article is to provide practical suggestions for sport psychology practitioners based on relevant research related to Christianity and sport psychology as well as personal and professional experience. We first explain the various sport psychology roles before providing a brief review of literature. Studies related to Christian athletes, Christian coaches, Christian prayer within sport, and sport psychology consultants’ experiences of spirituality are presented. Lastly, the authors include four …
A Psychotheology Of Losing, 2017 Lipscomb University
A Psychotheology Of Losing, Matthew D. Ruiz
Movement and Being: The Journal of the Christian Society for Kinesiology, Leisure and Sports Studies
This paper explores what it means to lose in a contemporary American society. Kanter (2004) suggested that losing serves as an alarm, notifying one that it is time to recalibrate. For Duina (2011) losing offers a time for reexamination. Sports equates to winning and losing. Thanks to well-indoctrinated maxims like Lombardi’s “winning is the only thing” and a cultural rejection of “losers” we are in an era where the pursuit of winning trumps other variables which are also worthy of pursuit and consideration. Thus, losing becomes an insult to our ego-driven lives. As such, one cannot discuss losing without also …